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'Government Totally Annihilated': How Americans Governed Themselves as British Rule Crumbled

America in the mid-1770s was a jumble of spontaneous formations amid the ruins of an empire.

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An illustration of hands holding tools such as a rifle and a shovel | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: iStock, Wikimedia
(Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: iStock, Wikimedia)

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.